Payslips

Employers should be aware of the legal requirements concerning payslips – here is the Chalmers HB guide to the essentials…

Most employees receive payslips and take them for granted, but what are the legal requirements?

All employees, including those working part-time and temporarily, are entitled to receive a written payslip on or before their pay day. The Employment Rights Act (ERA) sets out the required contents of a payslip:

Gross pay

Amounts and purpose of variable and fixed deductions

Net pay

Method of payment (where different amounts are paid in different ways)

In practice, most employers give much more information than the basic statutory requirements. For instance, it is obviously good practice to analyse gross pay to show: